Public programs & Collective programs temporarily suspended
&
Update on national guidelines in response to Coronavirus
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Birthday Puja, 21 March 2006, Sydney
Dear Family
Jai Shri Mataji!
As responsible members of the Australian community, Sahaja Yogis must take effective action and play our role to reduce the speed at which coronavirus spreads.
The Australian Council and Trustees have decided that Sahaja Yoga public programs will be temporarily suspended until further notice, effective immediately.
Also, our collective meditation programs will now be temporarily suspended until further notice and transition to online Collective meditation programs overseen by your Sahaja Councils to reflect Sahaja culture.
Birthday Puja will not be held this weekend as normal and Yogis are not to attend their Ashrams or homes where the Puja is normally held. Instead, Yogis are encouraged to meditate at their homes from 2pm Eastern Standard Time on Saturday 21st March and watch the live online stream from Shri Mataji’s Burwood Ashram (the link will be sent soon).
We recognise that these steps mean life will be very different for us as Sahaja Yogis. Let’s use this period to consolidate our dedication and commitment to the vision of Our Divine Mother Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the Almighty All-Powerful Goddess.
Let’s all continue to give Collective Bandhans and pray to HH Shri Mataji to solve all the problems of Coronavirus and to keep us all under Her Divine Protection.
We kindly asked that you read all of this important email. All Councillors are very happy to talk to you if you feel you have any specific queries or concerns.
Important information
Public programs stopped.
All Sahaja Yoga public programs will be temporarily suspended until further notice, effective immediately.
We ask that Yogis running public programs take simple steps to ensure new people are informed by placing posters at the program location and contact any regular attendees. Please use the link below to download a suggested poster to place at your local program venue.
Providing support with webcasts
To ensure our new people continue to enjoy the benefits of collective meditations and learning more about Sahaja Yoga meditation, our webcast team will continue to provide regular live online meditations that everyone can follow on YouTube.
Our next webcast will be this Sunday 22nd March to celebrate Shri Mataji’s Birthday. Full details here.
This online public program is a live online YouTube public program from Burwood Ashram. The Council is swiftly preparing another online option to supplement these live YouTube public programs and Yogis will be kept updated.
Please understand that all online public programs being held in Australia require the approval of the Australian Council. We have developed an online presence over many years that is tailored to the Australia seekers and presents Sahaja Yoga in a way that is universally supported. At this time of change in approaching seekers we need to maintain our mature and consistent approach.
Advising the public
The general public on our database, and visitors to our websites, will be informed shortly that all programs and events have been temporarily suspended. See sample email here.
Collective online meditation programs.
Following Birthday Puja this Saturday, collective online meditation will be provided each weekend until further notice instead of in person Collective meditations. Yogis are encouraged to attend these collective online meditation programs. These programs will be overseen by Sahaja Councils to reflect Sahaja culture. More details will be sent shortly.
Clearing Camp & Easter Puja at Hiawatha Ashram.
The Clearing Camp scheduled for Monday 6th April to Friday 10th April will be cancelled as the Sahaja doctors, who were to travel from France and India, would need to self isolate for 14 days and are in a high risk category.
Our National Easter Puja to be held at Hiawatha Ashram will not proceed. All international Yogis travelling from overseas for Easter will be informed.
Public health information
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Government advice education is regularly updated. We strongly encourage you to inform yourself by go their Coronavirus (COVID-19) resources website.
Sahaja Yoga Treatments
We are all part and parcel of the whole. Now is a time to recommit to daily clearing practices including candle treatment, shoe-beating, foot-soaking and saying the Devi Kavach.
Following are some relevant Talks of HH Shri Mataji.
- Introspection and Meditation – 1988
- Health & Cleanness – 1988
- Sickness and its cure – 1983
- Treatment for Viruses – Extract (The full Talk by HH Shri Mataji can be found here.)
Treatment for Viruses – Extract
(The full Talk by HH Shri Mataji can be found here.
‘Now for flu, first of all, this is again left-sided’
“Sahaja Yogi: Flu? Flu?
Shri Mataji: That’s one thing is difficult.
Flu. Now for flu, first of all, this is again left-sided. But we have got a very good medicine in India I don’t know if you have that there is what you call is the basil [tulsi in Hindi], basil leaves. You take lots of basil leaves make a concoction, it’s called?
Sahaja Yogi: Infusion.
Shri Mataji: Huh?
Sahaja Yogi: Infusion.
Shri Mataji: No. [It’s a decoction].
Sahaja Yogi: Boil it up in a pot.
Shri Mataji: Boil it up in a pot, make it absolutely, the essence take it out quite thick put tea in it or water or I mean, just like the way you want to make it like a tea and put milk or whichever way you want, but less milk, and sugar because the taste may not be so good. And then you drink it, before that you have to prepare some what you call for dhuni? You all know Ajwain ka dhuni. You see, you know that. So you take ajwain ka dhuni after that, that’s all. You do it three days you’ll be all right, cleared out.”
43:53, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Medical, India tour, Rahuri, 1986
‘So must use this ghee for the nose.’
“There are certain routines I think we should follow because Hamsa is catching for the new people and this is due to this dryness I think in the room there is dryness, in the places where you work there is dryness and in the house there is dryness. So must use this ghee for the nose. I think one drop in every nostril once in the morning and once in the evening would be good, because I can feel it in Hamsa, the drying out, the…
If you are getting also drying out in the throat and you feel that all the time there’s a kind of a coughing so the best thing for that is to put a few drops of ghee on hot milk or hot water and take that so the whole thing spreads here (Indicates the throat from left to right) and it makes it smooth. As you see our hands and all that needs some cream we need this for our ___ we can call it the epithelial cells which are lining and when this line becomes dried out then you feel very funny.
I mean the whole attention gets very upset so I think you should get try in London, it’s a good idea, to keep a bottle of ghee with you, and you can heat it in the water, hot water, just like you can hold it under a tap and it will work out, and then put two drops in the morning and two drops in the night, before sleeping it will be a good idea.
The dryness will go off and also in the ear I think we should put some sort of an Olive oil or something will be good idea, because all… I feel the dryness very much since I’ve come in London I can feel that you people have this dryness. That’s a very common thing and that can also solve your problem of hay fever and all those things.
Now for liver we have found out great things and I think I’ll now sit down and write all that is to be done for liver and we can circulate it to all the members what is to be.
It’s very, very simple things that you have to do it and if it works out them all your liver problems will be over.
Most of the diseases are there because of the liver so I think I should circulate that and it’s very simple, not much of medicine or anything but it’s very simple and it will work out.
This time it’s surprising all the Sahaja Yogis kept very good health on India tour, none of them had problem on the liver, nothing of the kind, surprising, every one of them.
So also it is connected, you see, with the flowing; if you have the cold which is all the time flowing and it’s sort of giving you sneezing and all that, you must know it is due to liver, It’s surprising! I hope the doctors will forgive me when I tell this, that you see when the liver gives the heat the phlegm in the body melts and gives these problems. When the phlegm melts, you see, you start getting the water flowing through your nose and also you get other problems like sneezing and also hay fever. All those things are from liver.
If liver is alright….that’s why it’s called liver because it’s connected with life… If your liver is alright you won’t have these problems, and that circulation we must send. (Looks at a yogi)”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk to Yogis in Covent gardens, London, UK, March 1987
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Birthday Puja, 21 March 2006, Sydney
Lots of Love
Lyn and Andre on behalf of your Australian Council